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Many sunspots are surrounded by a radial outflow called the moat flow. We investigate the moat flow at two different heights of the solar atmosphere for a sunspot whose magnetic properties were reported in the first paper of this series. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 H. Balthasar , K. Muglach

Velocity oscillations in sunspot umbrae have been measured simultaneously in two spectral lines: the photospheric Silicon I 10827 A line and the chromospheric Helium I 10830 A multiplet. From the full Stokes inversion of temporal series of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Rebecca Centeno , Manuel Collados , Javier Trujillo Bueno

By direct measurements of the gas temperature, the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) has yielded a new diagnostic tool to study the solar chromosphere. Here we present an overview of the brightness-temperature…

Transition-region loops are a type of critical magnetic structure in the solar atmosphere, yet their physical properties and evolutionary characteristics remain statistically poorly constrained. We aim to statistically characterize the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-31 Xiuhui Zuo , Zhenghua Huang , Maria S. Madjarska , Hui Fu , Hengyuan Wei , Xinzheng Shi , Lidong Xia

Periodic oscillations at 338 nHz in the Earth frame are observed at high latitudes in direct Doppler velocity measurements. These oscillations correspond to the $m=1$ high-latitude global mode of inertial oscillation. In this study, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-12 Stephan G. Heinemann , Zhi-Chao Liang , Laurent Gizon

Quasi-periodic fluctuations in the light curves of blazars can provide insight into the underlying emission process. This type of flux modulation hints at periodic physical processes that result in emission. CTA 102, a flat spectrum radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-15 Arkadipta Sarkar , Pankaj Kushwaha , Alok C. Gupta , Varsha R. Chitnis , Paul J. Wiita

High-spectral resolution observations using the VTT echelle spectrograph in the chromospheric H$\alpha$ line were obtained in the early growth phase of active region NOAA 12722. Noise-stripped H$\alpha$ line profiles yield maps of line-core…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-08 M. Verma , C. Denker , A. Diercke , C. Kuckein , H. Balthasar , E. Dineva , I. Kontogiannis , P. S. Pal , M. Sobotka

The observational picture of the enigmatic O-type spectrum variable HD191612 has been sharpened substantially. A symmetrical, low-amplitude light curve with a period near 540 d has recently been reported from Hipparcos photometry. This…

In the highly dynamic chromosphere, there exist many kinds of small-scale activities, such as spicules, surges, and Ellerman bombs. Here, we report the discovery of a new phenomenon in the chromosphere observed with the New Vacuum Solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-07 Shuhong Yang , Jun Zhang , Xiaohong Li , Zhong Liu , Yongyuan Xiang

In this study, we investigate motions in the hot plasma above the flare loops during the 2017 September 10 X8.2 flare event. We examine the region to the south of the main flare arcade, where there is data from the Interface Region Imaging…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Katharine K. Reeves , Vanessa Polito , Bin Chen , Giselle Galan , Sijie Yu , Wei Liu , Gang Li

We present results of high-cadence monitoring of the optical light curve of the nearby, Type Ia SN 2014J in M82 using the 2.3m Aristarchos telescope. $B$ and $V$-band photometry on days 15-18 after $t_{max}(B)$, obtained with a cadence of 2…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-09 A. Z. Bonanos , P. Boumis

Slow magnetoacoustic waves with a 3 minute period are upward-propagating waves traveling through the density-stratified umbral atmosphere. The decreasing density causes their amplitude to increase, developing into nonlinear waves through…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-15 Y. Sanjay , S. Krishna Prasad , R. Sych , P. S. Rawat

We investigate the oscillatory properties of the quiet solar chromosphere in relation to the underlying photosphere, with particular regard to the effects of the magnetic topology. We perform a Fourier analysis on a sequence of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Vecchio , G. Cauzzi , K. P. Reardon , K. Janssen , T. Rimmele

The various mechanisms of magneto-convective energy transport determines the structure of sunspots and active regions. We characterise the appearance of light bridges and other fine-structure details and elaborate on their…

Context. In previous work, we studied a prominence which appeared like a tornado in a movie made from 193 {\AA} filtergrams obtained with the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) imager aboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 M. Zapiór , B. Schmieder , P. Mein , N. Mein , N. Labrosse , M. Luna

We have analyzed H-alpha intensity images obtained at a 1 minute cadence with the Global Oscillation Network Group (GONG) system to investigate the properties of oscillations in the 0-8 mHz frequency band at the location and time of strong…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-08 Teresa Monsue , Frank Hill , Keivan G. Stassun

We present the results of a long-term monitoring campaign of the H\alpha line in a sample of bright OB-supergiants (O7.5-B9) that aims at detecting rotationally modulated changes potentially related to the existence of large-scale wind…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Morel , S. V. Marchenko , A. K. Pati , K. Kuppuswamy , M. T. Carini , E. Wood , R. Zimmerman

We present the results of multi wavelength, co-spatial and near co-temporal observations of jets above a sunspot light bridge. The data were obtained with the Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) on board Hinode, the Interface Region Spectrograph…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-12 Lokesh Bharti

In this work we selected one particular fibril from a high resolution solar chromosphere observation from the Dutch Open Telescope, and tried to obtain a broad picture of the intricate mechanism that might be incorporated in the multiple…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-11 Emanuel Sungging Mumpuni , Dhani Herdiwijaya , Mitra Djamal , Thomas Djamaluddin

High-resolution broadband filtergrams of active region NOAA 11271 in Ca ii H and G band were obtained with the Solar Optical Telescope on board Hinode to identify the physical driver responsible for the dynamic and small-scale chromospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Rohan E. Louis , Christian Beck , Kiyoshi Ichimoto
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